History in
a Pecan Shell

Once part of the
Stephen
F. Austin Colony, the community didn’t develop until the 1890s
when Fort Bend County
landowner Freeman Irby Booth arrived, and opened a store. Booth also
opened a lumberyard, cotton gin and syrup mill.

A post office opened in 1894 when the population was estimated at
150. It doubled by 1914 and the town received telephone service as
well as a bank.

From 1925 through the Great Depression and WWII,
Booth’s population remained steady at 100 residents. By the late 1940s
it had fallen to a mere 40 residents and has remained under 100. The
1990 census reported 60 citizens.